How To Use Harried In A Sentence

The premise of harried parents trying to raise quintuplets is interesting, but they do nothing with it. 108747998260188265 « Michael in Nashville
All too often one envisages a harried producer refusing to agree to the cost of another trashed vehicle.
I do not like being rude, but I like even less being badgered and harried.
This little pamphlet provides the harried book agent with specific speeches to use in answering a variety of objections.
They readily agreed, and so did the harried hotel desk clerk.

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Nicephorus' fleet harried the accessible southern coasts in retribution, but made no firm gains.
Harried health workers picked through the impatient crowd, sorting out the sickest children.
Instantly classified as a demon, the stranger is harried, persecuted and all but executed by the superstitious islanders.
He chased and harried in pursuit of the ball, and a goal.
Harried by constant fire and unsettled by the universal presence of landmines - the main cause of casualties - the Russian army has been thoroughly demoralised.
Another American priest who frequently visits the Vatican described the pope as "harried," which is an unsettling adjective, given that it is so rarely applied to Benedict, an academic by profession and disposition who always acts very deliberately and is rarely knocked off his game by daily events and pressures. AOL News Collection:All top stories collection
A couple of harried mothers were with them.
I had been so "harried" of late, that I felt a certain relief in being settled _somewhere_. Border and Bastille
Many cell phone users were harried by cell phone message, and we hardly bear the harassment.
The main courses were equally accomplished and unharried by fickle metropolitan fashion. Times, Sunday Times
They hustled and harried Spurs for 90 minutes. The Sun
When he explained to The Believer magazine that the travel demands were too much, the interviewer asked, "So the post has an august reputation, but to actually be sitting in the office is a kind of harried, exhausting and distracting experience? The Reluctant Poet Laureate
Nicephorus' fleet harried the accessible southern coasts in retribution, but made no firm gains.
The North was harried and the ancient church at Ripon burnt.
Contrast me with a woman I know, a black single parent in her 40s, who is currently being harried by the government until her head is spinning.
The reaction you'd get from a typical Eagles fan hearing this news might be a shift of the eyebrow, a shrug of the shoulders, maybe an exhalation of a harried breath.
You look as if you have been busy, but not harried.
He could hear voices passing, harried servants, laughing men, the occasional bark of a dog or whinny of a horse. A TIME OF WAR
On this low, wind-harried stretch of land, on which Nelson Mandela would later spend more than two decades, Sila breaks stones in the prison quarry, cleans the warden's home, survives in the company of the few other women prisoners, especially Lys, and sings a fierce, sometimes maniacal, sometimes wickedly humorous love song to her dead son. Yvette Christiansë talks about the background to her novel, Unconfessed
Kepesh's harried confessional provides the narrative drive for the novel and draws attention to Roth's ability to seamlessly and unforcedly conjoin prose and plotline.
He flew down the stairs with his harried staff scrambling to make ready all he had asked for.
To attract the harried consumer, some retail developers are thinking out of the box.
Where unceasing mobility turns into a stressful burden, a desire for leisureliness and unharriedness is likely to grow.
The children nap and watch television while the parents sit listlessly by the filthy pool and demand more ice for their drinks from harried servants.
He might have writ himself _armigero_ in many a bill, or obligation, or quittance, or what not; he might have left something behind him save unpaid tavern bills; he might have heard cases, harried poachers, and quoted old saws; and slept in his own family chapel through sermons yet unwrit, beneath his presentment, done in stone, and a comforting bit of Latin: but he is dead long since. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
Once considered mainly a feedlot pest, the stable fly has extended its reign of terror to the open pasture and rangeland, areas where cattle once grazed virtually unharried by the bloodsucking insect.
Afterward, federal troops pushed the crowd into town, where its more hotheaded members harried the soldiers.
It is usual in tinpot dictatorships for past leaders to be harried from scenes of public prestige. A cheap and cruel snub to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown | Observer editorial
He was harried by constant bothering of his fans.
Readers may have detected a somewhat harried nature to my blog posts of the last few weeks.
I like to imagine my mother a harried and frantic termagant, slightly crazed and in distinct need of sedation.
When we speak, he addresses me like a slightly harried father chivvying a child.
Even if Bushnell frames parental tasks with urgency, the basic activities of parenthood are far from harried.
The harried pastor mumbled something and rushed out the door. Christianity Today
I would rather think of the stower as another harried soul trying desperately to meet performance targets. Times, Sunday Times
To those supporters of Jim Jefferies, the former manager who left amid scenes of acrimony last year, or former chairman Deans, he is a hate figure to be hounded and harried.
Anthony Wong is a harried family man who spends most of his time out of the house playing mah-jong.
In truth, it's commonplace for harried, in-shop work schedulers or field supervisors to permit maintenance work to lapse.
Many are too busy, too harried, too misinformed.
When we speak, he addresses me like a slightly harried father chivvying a child.
It made half-hearted and unavailing attempts to save itself as it was harried ever farther down the street. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
There really are people like this: relaxed, unharried hosts. Globe and Mail
The plump and harried mother, dressed in a denim jumper, drives a battered Econo-Van with numerous dents.
Googlebot: ( raises a harried eyebrow and looks annoyed ) Where shall I begin?
To add to his woes, his Switch card machine had conked out, forcing harried cashiers to put transactions through manually.
She harried the authorities, writing letters and getting up petitions.
The Vikings harried the English coast.
A tireless worker who harried City in the first half and found himself in attacking positions. Times, Sunday Times
A length of shimmering silver lamé was delivered by the harried pageant coordinator himself.
A grassroots activist with unique expertise can be extremely valuable to a harried staffer.
Mum was getting harried still searching for the elusive edger. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters
Second Thoughts looks at people's careers that turned in the space of just a few words - following three people who spoke out for what they believed in and were harried and criticised for it.
May also, by Thaumas, be the mother of the Harpies, foul bird-women who lived in a Cretan cave and harried criminals, but this could be a different ocean-nymph of the same name.
I'll nae deny I take a wee drappie now an 'then," the woods-boss admitted frankly, albeit there was a harried, hangdog look in his eyes. The Valley of the Giants
No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried
Andy Lawrie harried Clyde goalkeeper Bryn Halliwell sufficiently in the very opening assault to earn the first of two rapid corners.
It never made sense to me theologically or morally--it anthropomorphizes God into a kind of harried Big Chief in the sky whose decision making processes are influenced by the squeaky wheels. E-Mails to God and Glenn Beck
The harried pastor mumbled something and rushed out the door. Christianity Today
The shrill howls of moral outrage that harried Tommy Sheridan to his incarceration had barely died when some fresh apostasies were spotted and the burning crosses have been scurrying hither and yon to see what can be condemned. Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna
Afterward, federal troops pushed the crowd into town, where its more hotheaded members harried the soldiers.
No other State north of South Carolina was so harried by the forces of the king; and against no other State did they direct such efforts or send such armies, armies which held portions of it to the close of the war. X. The Revolutionary War. 1775-1783.
It's a place that fills with blue-collar workers, harried parents and cleated kids 'soccer teams, still sweaty and grass-stained from their games. Father and son Kensington pizza joint braces for the arrival of the big burrito
They both stopped and flashed plastic smiles when the harried young man made eye contact with them.
We are harried and hassled by time, the clock is our master, the ghost that turns up at every feast.
Flying columns harried rebel territory throughout late November, and on 5 December the remnants of the peasant army were surrounded at Hasselt.
A harried but worried Dalek came to see me several times with masses of paper. ICED
After living on a commune, he and his wife moved to Burlington, joining so many other back-to-the-landers looking to flee their harried urban existences.
The harried pastor mumbled something and rushed out the door. Christianity Today
Some proponents of murder theories had previously suggested a harried and rushed embalming process.
His eyes had been rubbed a raw red by fatigue and cold and had a harried glitter.
We hustled and harried them but we also played the football and could have won the game by more than just the one. The Sun
So, the betting must now be that Charles will be harried and hounded by sections of the media until he screams for mercy and agrees to do whatever they want, whenever they want.
She harried the authorities, writing letters and getting up petitions.
A harried pitbull of a ticket agent posted at the door barked at him for his pass.
For almost 30 minutes they chased, harried and battled far more than they have shown in any game so far this season. The Sun
They were shaken down by bent cops, leaned on by mobsters and harried by the FBI.
After an erratic and harried greeting, we waited quite a while for some one to initiate contact.
They were kind of harried, but while I was running around, up and down the stairs at least 500 times over the course of the day, I was never really stressed. It takes a village
The malls and department stores are filled with harried shoppers.
For the rest of the game the Foxes rarely dropped below frantic as they chased and harried Swansea out of their stride. The Sun
Last night, writer/director Sean McGinly's film "The Great Buck Howard," about a has-been "mentalist" (John Malkovich) and his harried assistant, made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Michelle Kung: Sundance Friday: Hanks, Malkovich and Politics On Show
I keep squinting up at the clock and accidentally catching the eye of busy-looking workers who scurry by with sheafs of paper, steaming mugs of coffee and harried expressions.
In fact the entire year seems hell-bent on hurtling towards December 25 in a desperate, harried, headlong rush.
Nicephorus' fleet harried the accessible southern coasts in retribution, but made no firm gains.
Into his post-prandial idyll stalks Steve Coogan; taller, sharper, slightly harried, he sits down heavily and scowls. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'We're not the big buddies people think we are'
During the day he hid behind the role of a harried businessman, too busy to review contracts or shuffle through mail.
Sometimes a young otter trails the white-faced adult, and is harried by a hungry gull competing for scraps of abalone.
‘All those years later we were still being harried by red tape and Turkish customs and coastguards,’ Dobson recalls.
For the rest of the game the Foxes rarely dropped below frantic as they chased and harried Swansea out of their stride. The Sun
Upon arriving at the terminal building, I was astonished to see only one harried police officer whose job it was to ensure that cars weren't left unattended curbside.
Sometimes a young otter trails the white-faced adult, and is harried by a hungry gull competing for scraps of abalone.
There's a hodgepodge of tools available to assist harried helpdesk staffers in doing everything from reformatting disk drives to remotely controlling a PC.
The play starred Mark Rylance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a beer-gurgling, barnstorming braggart who lives in a caravan deep in the Wiltshire woods, harried on one side by council officials desperate to evict him, on the other by teenagers wanting drugs. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
And as he could not make them conform he "harried" them so that many were glad to leave the land to escape tyranny. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
Lone parents, disabled people and the long term unemployed are harried and persecuted.
She has been harried by the press all week.
Al Qaeda's top leaders are holed up somewhere along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, apparently too harried to issue more than the occasional online missive.
An icy wind whipped across the bridges and occasionally a flurry of snow harried you down the street, snapping at your heels.
He could hear voices passing, harried servants, laughing men, the occasional bark of a dog or whinny of a horse. A TIME OF WAR
Now, publishing houses are short-staffed, editors are harried, and money is tight. Holly Robinson: Did I Just Hammer a Nail Into My Bookstore's Coffin?
Some harried travelers just want the soothing ambience of a small inn.
Yet a devil was loose somewhere, a restless imp had slipped into her and would not be harried or prayed out.
He exudes a smoothly organised, expensive lifestyle, unhurried, unharried. Times, Sunday Times
He recalled harried efforts to bury corpses found on the roadside even as he and his neighbors tried to organize their families to flee the area. Kathy Kelly: Now We See You, Now We Don't
I like to imagine my mother a harried and frantic termagant, slightly crazed and in distinct need of sedation.
A tireless worker who harried City in the first half and found himself in attacking positions. Times, Sunday Times
He was not really a harried executive, everything was smooth.
The last resort of harried creationists is the fossil record. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of raging against modern life, they sold themselves as easing the way for the harried middle class.
Sometimes the raiders would be harried on to higher ground, sometimes they would flee through Gleann Einich and over the Moine Mhor.
A harried but worried Dalek came to see me several times with masses of paper. ICED
In one, she resembles a gamine, androgynous youth, in another, a stern master of the house, and in yet another, she wears the resigned expression of a harried housewife.
For almost 30 minutes they chased, harried and battled far more than they have shown in any game so far this season. The Sun
We hustled and harried them but we also played the football and could have won the game by more than just the one. The Sun
a harried expression
The _yellow yite_, or yellow hammer, was held in just the opposite estimation, and although one of the prettiest of birds, their nests were remorselessly harried, and their young often cruelly killed. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century
The writer is harried by an itch which refuses to go away.
Upset the henroost, devoured what was left of the cow, dug up the verdurous three acres, and till two o'clock in the morning harried the Commissioners under the Scotch University Act. _Business done_. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892
They hustled and harried Spurs for 90 minutes. The Sun
Harried persons, rushing to work or back home, become victims of road rage or even accidents.
She harried the detective constable who was checking Christine Mills' alibis.
I saw a harried-looking mother at the checkout trying to manage two small children and a mountain of shopping.
Now the vixen snapped at the dog's heels, so he turned on her and found himself harried again by her brother.
FRANCIS: Do you find that people are kind of harried here, they're really -- they're out of emotional gas at this point to deal with it? CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2001

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